basic authenticating only specific client, otherwise requiring normal login

[anonymous]

Original Trac's login feature is useful for human user, but programs prefer basic auth. Such programs are not only XML-RPC clients, some of them need to read normal pages.

One example that i encounter is search engine crawler in intranet which has basic auth client function but does not support cookie.

[anonymous]

quick hack.

[anonymous]

Attached my patch for the feature. (sorry for the dirtiness, i am not pythonist.)

It worked with Trac 0.11.5.

[txcraig@…]

Patch to allow querystring identification of API clients

[txcraig@…]

It would be really great to see this ticket fixed. It is difficult on forms-login based Trac sites to access Trac programmatically (i.e. resources other than the XmlRpcPlugin API). For example being able to grab a fully rendered ticket or wiki page is very useful and not possible with just XmlRpcPlugin.

I have a slightly different approach attachment:filter.py.patch​ that is based on the API client specifying a querystring parameter to identify itself (instead of the user agent method in the other patch). I suspect that if you considered all possible clients it is generally easier to tweak the request URL than tweak the user-agent.

[httpauth]
paths = /xmlrpc, /login/xmlrpc
apiclients = mylyn

To force the basic auth just access the ticket URL like this: ​http://trac-hacks.org/ticket/6304?apiclient=mylyn

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to txcraig@gmail.com:

It would be really great to see this ticket fixed.

The plugin is in need of a maintainer. Interested?

[txcraig@…]

Sure, I'll contact you offline to see what is involved.

[txcraig]

I am adopting this plugin.